2, eat autumn peach, autumn, adults and children have to eat autumn peach, each one, eat the core to stay up. Wait until New Year's Eve this day, the peach kernel thrown into the fireplace burned to ashes, people believe that this will be exempt from the plague of the year.
3, dumplings, of course, in the fall to "grab autumn fat" dumplings. Dumplings are a very popular food, eat dumplings in the fall is called "grab autumn fat", you grab me a dumpling, I grab you a dumpling, people think this can make their body strong.
4, eat small red beans, from the Tang and Song dynasties, there are in the autumn, must be served with well water small red beans custom. Take seven to fourteen small red beans, well water to swallow, serve to face west, so it is said to be an autumn without dysentery. Folk have in the Autumn divination weather hot and cold custom. The Eastern Han Dynasty Cui Banquet, "Four People's Monthly Orders": "Toward the beginning of autumn, chilly; night autumn, hot to the head."
5, stick autumn fat, folk popular in the autumn this day to hanging scales weighing people, the weight with the summer when compared. Because people to summer, there is no appetite, meals are light and simple, two or three months down, most of the weight to reduce a little. Autumn wind together, appetite, want to eat some good, increase a little nutrition, to compensate for the loss of summer, make up for the way is "stick autumn fat": in the autumn this day a variety of meat, stewed meat roasted meat braised meat, etc., "to meat fat".
6, eat "slag", Shandong Laixi region popular in the fall to eat "slag", a kind of soybean and vegetables made of small tofu, and have "eaten the slag of the fall, adults and children do not vomit also do not pull! and there is a saying that "if you eat the dregs of autumn, adults and children will not vomit or have diarrhea". Autumn is a period of high incidence of gastrointestinal diseases, many regional folklore with the cure and pray for a year of health. Sichuan and Shandong are typical representatives of this type of folklore.
7, eat "lucky round", the autumn season is the Taiwan longan season. People believe that eating longan meat, grandchildren will be a big official, and longan is also known as "lucky round", so there is a proverb: eating lucky round birth children and grandchildren in the scholar.
8, eat eggplant, folk proverb: summer planted eggplant, autumn eat eggplant. Autumn is a good time to eat eggplant. Folklore the day before the autumn melon, steamed eggplant preserved, glutinous soup, etc. in the yard to dry one night, eat on the day of the autumn.
9, eat cool cake, in the hearts of Jinhua citizens, Autumn eat watermelon, eat cool cake is an essential traditional custom. What is cool cake? Is to use sweet potato starch boiled into a soup, poured in a bowl. To be the next morning, the knot into a whole piece. From a distance it looks like a round and clear white jade, then cut into small pieces, sprinkled with sugar, vinegar, mint, cool and refreshing, sweet and sour appetizer.